Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has disputed a report that the former CEO of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, owns millions of Twitter shares.
Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, Musk shared a number of posts addressing the report, which was shared on the platform by former New York Times reporter and Editor-in-Chief of news site Semafor, Ben Smith.
Semafor launched last month and Bankman-Fried is one of the startup’s investors.
The article in question was written by The Wall Street Journal’s Liz Hoffman for Semafor and alleged that Musk texted Bankman-Fried on May 5 and “invited” him to roll his $100 million stake in Twitter when it went private….